Electric vehicle prices would need to drop by nearly a third for Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault’s ambitious sales mandate to be feasible, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Office.
Blacklock’s Reporter says the mandate requires that 60% of new passenger vehicle sales be electric by 2030, but the Budget Office raised concerns about the economic viability of this target.
The International Union of Painters and Allied Trades says employer abuse of foreign workers is running “rampant” in the construction sector and Ottawa should pause the temporary foreign workers program entirely until an independent audit is conducted to investigate the scale of fraud and misuse within the program.
The construction union said in a statement Thursday it discovered financial abuse of migrant workers at a British Columbia painting company. At least one of the workers has since been approved for a government program that converts closed work permits to open work visas if applicants can prove they suffered severe abuse and exploitation by their employer.
The Trudeau government treads water, gasping for air. Their desperation has led to consistent, aggressive overreach into provincial jurisdiction, creating a constant looming threat to the constitutional balance of power in Canada.
Every year, the inner ring of Ottawa’s power players — cabinet — heads off to a quiet part of the country in order to devise the future direction of the country. At last years’ cabinet retreat, the federal government was plotting its recovery in the polls, trying to fend off a new political threat in the surging Conservatives and Pierre Poilievre.
You can now add immigration to the list of big issues in B.C.’s Oct. 19 election.
B.C. Conservative party Leader John Rustad raised the challenge publicly, even before his party was strengthened by the dramatic collapse on Wednesday of B.C. United.
Rustad threw down the gauntlet on social media after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted Monday that his government had welcomed too many low-wage foreign workers and it was time to “invest in Canadian workers and youth.”
OTTAWA — Most Canadians believe the Trudeau government’s immigration plan is admitting too many people, but they’re less clear on the temporary foreign worker program, according to new polling.
OTTAWA — More than 200 Gazans have arrived in Canada under a special temporary residency program launched in January, according to Immigration Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
“As of August 24, 2024, 209 people have arrived in Canada under the temporary public policy,” wrote IRCC spokesman Jeffrey MacDonald in an email to the National Post.
Massive lineup of employment seekers at Longo’s job fair
Hariharan Thirupal hopes the proverb is correct, and the early bird catches the worm.
Sudhi Govind Thekkeparambil Anil feels the same way.
The Conestoga College students arrived at the Doon Pioneer Park Community Centre at 3 a.m. on Wednesday, seven hours before a two-day in-person job fair to hire about 100 employees for Waterloo Region’s first Longo’s grocery store.
Trudeau is destroying your quality of life for future votes.
Foreign students keep coming to Conestoga College despite big visa rollback
h/t Patti Jo
Canada’s attempt to use immigration as stimulus might be backfiring. That was the message from a new BMO report, looking at the unusually high unemployment rate for recent immigrants. The labor market for recent immigrants is eroding much faster than it is for the rest of Canada—at a rate rarely seen outside of recession. The problem is this isn’t a recession, the aggressive population growth just isn’t doing anyone any favors.
Unless policies or technologies change, the cost of electric vehicles (EVs) needs to decrease by 31 per cent if Canada to wants to reach its sales target of 60 per cent EVs by 2030, according to a new report released Thursday by Parliamentary Budget Officer Yves Giroux.
And what about the infrastructure needed to charge all those flashy new EV’s? Any new reactors coming on stream? No?
The “policy” part of a bad immigration policy can be fixed.
The government can, for example, announce a cap on international study permits when it becomes clear that Canada can’t accommodate the 1,028,850 international students it accepted in 2023. It can scale back the number of hours international students are allowed to work off-campus when students who are working close to 40 hours a week are in effect temporary foreign workers with the wrong papers. It can announce a six-month moratorium on applications for some low-wage temporary foreign workers in Montreal when there is a by-election coming up in the city. Wait – no, I meant to say: when unemployment is up in Quebec. Yes, that’s it.
The last four-plus years have been a rollercoaster for millions of Canadians.
The pandemic, which began in early 2020, quickly led to mass layoffs (most temporary) and widespread disruptions to normal life. This was accompanied by hiccups in often-fragile global supply chains, subsequently aggravated by the Russia-Ukraine war.
Public Safety Minister Dominic LeBlanc defended Canada’s national security system after it was revealed an alleged ISIS terrorist was granted Canadian citizenship just before being arrested for plotting a terror attack in the Greater Toronto Area.
The suspect, Ahmed Fouad Mostafa Eldidi, was initially allowed into Canada on a visitor visa in 2018 and subsequently gained refugee status, permanent residency, and finally citizenship.
Another group of post-secondary students in Brampton has the public talking this week — largely in the form of criticism — for protesting about failing their classes.
Just like the demonstrations that took place outside of the city’s Algoma University earlier this year, dozens enrolled at St. Clair College of Applied Arts and Technology — an institution operated in partnership with private a career college called Ace Acumen Academy — are claiming that their school has “failed them for no reason.”
Translation: “Ve we’re not going to class because ve have vob at Tim Hortons and we expect to just cheat on test and when we couldn’t we failed this is mean”
Go home your scum https://t.co/3HvDS3ENwY
— Small fringe minority with unacceptable views (@TrudeausCloset) August 27, 2024
h/t RH
When politicians make important financial decisions based on a movie they may have seen as kids, it shouldn’t come as a shock if the results prove to be sub-optimal.
Field of Dreams was a hit 1989 film based on a 1982 novel about a 1919 baseball scandal. An Iowa farmer played by Kevin Costner repeatedly hears an ethereal voice advising him “If you build it, he will come.” So he constructs a ball diamond in a corn field and, sure enough, long-dead figures from a long-gone baseball team — including Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson — come wandering out of the fields for a game of pick-up.
Canada will try to break its rising dependence on low-wage, temporary foreign workers (TFWs). This week the Government of Canada (GoC) announced it will freeze processing of TFWs in some regions with elevated unemployment. Despite rising unemployment, the program has seen explosive growth with annual volumes rising 300% over the past five years. Just the first quarter of 2024 has already processed more than the annual total for 2018.
